Sentences with phrase «while ebook consumers»

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While we certainly have no antipathy to ebooks, and make them available to consumers from the date of publication, we're committed to text.

While this report took into account the total book buying habits of consumers, ebooks also saw a spike in consumption.

While an ebook is a much less expensive commodity, many consumers take the same approach to buying their entertainment as they do purchasing high - ticket items.

While the Consumer Electronics Show in January marked the apogee of ereader proliferation, at the time I was still irked by the fact that the ebook didn't really have that much to offer consumers over a physical book.

The Publisher's Association's Statistics Yearbook, as reported in the Guardian, talks about a massive growth in eBook sales, where consumers spent in 2011 # 92M, while print lost 7 % to previous year, totaling sales to # 1.579 B. Notice the M versus the B.

While Pottermore.com will be the exclusive sales location for the entire digital Harry Potter series, Pottermore and Google confirmed that they have joined up to allow consumers to store their Potter ebooks in their cloud - based Google Books libraries.

Amazon does not release customer data, and with good reason; HarperCollins has been steadily building an ebook sales channel while encouraging consumers to shop at other outlets besides Amazon.

And while much of this might seem like nothing more than petty playground behavior between children who honestly do not have a clear good guy or bad guy, keep in mind that several ebook retailers incorporate the Goodreads» API into their sales pages, effectively posting book reviews that many in the Goodreads community knew to be false, and nothing more than an act of revenge against an author; real - world sales decisions have been made by consumers based on these reviews.

In addition, Nook users can read any ebook in the entire catalog for free, as long as they are in the store; this model has taught Nook consumers that they still need the old fashioned bookstore, while translating into increased sales for B&N in products besides books.

But today, an article by Aaron Stanton for Digital Book World may provide the answers to how to categorize ebooks to ensure the safety of online shoppers — especially underaged readers — while also offering consumers more detailed information about the type and level of content within the virtual pages of a book.

What remains to be seen if Amazon will bite the bait given less of consumer acceptance of ebook reading devices, while it is pushing for greater sales of its Kindle Fire tablet range.

While it might be hard to envision having your mom «unwrap» an ebook for Christmas, more and more consumers are turning to the portability associated with long distance gift giving and turning to virtual shopping; and according to a number of social media posts about ebook purchasing, holiday gift givers are quite likely to purchase an ebook for themselves to read while traveling or while visiting relatWhile it might be hard to envision having your mom «unwrap» an ebook for Christmas, more and more consumers are turning to the portability associated with long distance gift giving and turning to virtual shopping; and according to a number of social media posts about ebook purchasing, holiday gift givers are quite likely to purchase an ebook for themselves to read while traveling or while visiting relatwhile traveling or while visiting relatwhile visiting relatives.

Obviously, this kept digital reading from taking off initially, as consumers had to pay the same price for the ebook that they would have paid for the print, while paying more than double the tax rate.

While many e-reader recipients would logically be expected to open user accounts with the platform that serves their e-readers and then follow through with a few ebook purchases in the post-gift giving excitement, it actually speaks volumes about where consumers choose to spend their dollars and lend their support that patrons were checking out ebooks on Christmas.

While I agree with Amazon as a consumer — I think traditionally published ebooks are often priced way too high — I fail to see why they are under the delusion that I should hop on their bandwagon for this.

While relying on a favorite online retailer for ebooks is to be expected, especially if consumers use brand specific dedicated devices, it speaks more to the customer service experience that readers are likely to rely on specific retailers for other purchases.

While these fans might be a dying breed as more and more consumers turn to the price and convenience of ebooks, the publishing industry is still feeling the effects of a market driven by print fans.

While there is no clear answer yet, opponents of Digital Rights Management have demonstrated that stripping away the «protection» on ebooks has actually led to an increase in book sales and a decrease in piracy, as consumers are often willing to pay for access to a book.

While the ebook is available from Untreed's network of more than two hundred ebook retailers in its distribution channels, readers who purchase the book from the Untreed Reads store, thereby providing the maximum amount of royalty for the author and the publisher, as well as bringing consumers to its storefront to discover its catalog of ebooks, will receive additional content for free, this time in the form of Francke's music.

At the same time, this venture recognizes that a growing number of consumers want the variety of options that are open to them as tablet consumers, while still benefiting from their customer relationships with specific book and ebook retailers.

Random House offered perpetual access at a high price while Penguin offered one year of access for about the consumer price of the ebook.

While most print books are available to libraries at a bit less than the discounted consumer cost at Amazon, these ebooks average five times the Amazon consumer price.

While this is a nice idea that allows consumers to give a tangible gift of an ebook, this could very well be the salvation of the brick - and - mortar bookstores.

Obviously there can be a lot more contributing to the drop in sales — a weaker economy means less consumers taking farther - reaching vacations, for example — but if the trend that came about with the enhanced ebooks is solid, could this mean that people who buy books about business or technology embrace e-reading while readers who purchase travel guides or cookbooks are less apt to choose digital over print?

While children's books may not be the main source of ebook sales for publishers, many are developing the market, knowing that today's app book reader is tomorrow's ebook consumer.

While Pottermore.com will be the exclusive sales location for the entire digital Harry Potter series, Pottermore and Google confirmed that they have joined up to allow consumers to store their Potter ebooks in their cloud - based... [Read more...]

From the booklovers point of view, while ebooks are sure to continue its acceptance in far greater numbers in future, the print versions continues to enjoy a loyal consumer base.

And while a $ 9.99 ebook price may be good for consumers looking to buy ebooks, it's the idea of this becoming a race to make the cheapest ebook that worries me.

Publishers can be slow on the uptake with ebooks, while consumers want to read them.

And, while most consumer ebooks are still simple black and white text, educational publishing uses the full gamut of rich media.

Rumor (and Börsenverein prediction) has it, that the number of consumers reading both print and ebooks will decrease slightly (an estimated 3 %) within this year, while the exclusive use of print books will be significantly on the rise (from 38 % in 2014 to an estimated 45 % in 2015).

While the publishers who treat ebooks as printed books make most of their sales to the public and are rightfully concerned that school and library sales will erode the consumer sales that they need to survive, the publishers who have developed and champion the unlimited simultaneous use with perpetual access model sell only to or principally to school libraries.

While some of this has to do with hardware availability, school purchasing limitations, and general infrastructure issues, there are a few issues with educational publisher behavior that have contributed to eBooks being adopted far less in schools than in the consumer market.

Reuters and The New York Times have good explanations of the case and its possible fallout, while paidContent Laura Hazard Owen has a shorter primer, including a note that consumers aren't likely to see any change in ebook prices.

The latest round of headlines was triggered by UK Publishers» Association figures noting a fall in consumer eBook sales of 17 % in 2016, while physical book sales rose 8 %.

She said that publishers come to understand that ebooks can supplement their revenue when they understand better that ebooks can have a wider reach than print without incurring the expense of physical distribution — and while providing readers with immediate access, something that many consumers demand.

I don't want to speculate about what goes on in other people's bedrooms but I suspect it might be something similar, because figures published today by the Publishing Association show that sales of consumer ebooks have dropped by 17 %, while sales of physical books are up 8 %.

While a DRM free eBook ecosystem would clearly be the best for the consumer (choice of device, free movement of files from device to device, etc), the second best option is an ecosystem where the DRM is ubiquitous and the patron doesn't even realize it's there.

While no direct comparison exists for the UK market - where the Publishers» Association reported a 17 % fall in consumer eBook sales from 2015 to 2016 - 42 % of eBook sales in that market are by self, indie or Amazon - published authors.